Type-line-setting machine



J. DORNETH. TYPE LINE SETTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, I918- 1,408,570. v Patented Mar. 7, 1922.

JULIUS DDRNE'II-I, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO TYPOGBAPH G.

M. B. H.', OF

BERLIN, GERMANY.

TYPE-LINE-SETTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters fPatent.

Patented Mar. '7,

Application filed July 20, 1918. Serial No. 245,918.

To aZZ whom it may concmn 1 Be it known that I, JULIUS DORNETH, a citizen of Germany, and residing at Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Line-Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a type-line setting machine with matrix bars which are each guided on a wire, and has for its object to reduce materially the magazine and thus the whole machine, by a special arrangement of matrices in the magazine. In existing niachines of the kind in question, the matrices hang vertically downwards on the wires owing to gravity, and are arranged in the magazine next to each other so that they are situated with their wide sides in the direction of width of the machine. The total number of these matrices hanging next to each other with their wide sides and the spaces required between them, necessitate a magazine the width of which is exceedingly large compared to the width required by the guide wires and by the devices required for setting and casting.

According to the invention, the matrices, instead of hanging vertically downwards, are turned in distributing, about their point of suspension so that they are arranged in the magazine in a horizontal or approximately horizontal position. The guide wires are arranged one above the other, so that the matrices are also arranged one above the other, and the magazine and therefore the whole machine, become considerably narrower.

Moreover, the arrangement of the machine facilitates a quicker setting, for it is then possible to arrange the magazine in immediate proximity to the setting point. Hitherto this could not be done in machines, with matrices guided on wires, as the guide wires, superposed at the point of setting, had to be disposed so that they were approximately next to each other in the magazine. Their length had to be calculated so that all the matrices, in spite of their different weights, should have the same duration of fall.

Two constructions according tothis invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, on a machine with matrices guided in a circle.

Figure l is a perspective view of the lowest guide wires of a machine for one kind of type, and

Figure 2 is a plan of the guide plates.

Figure 3 is a plan of the wire guiding in a machine for two kinds of type and Figure 4 is a section through the setting point of the latter.

The guide wires 1 form two adj oining groups A and B and enclose between them the setting point 2. After the setting, the matrix bars 3 are moved, by any desired driver of known kind, upwards in the direction of the arrows 4 toward the magazine 5, the wires of which again lead downwards. Under each guide wire at this point is pro-. vided a right angle guide plate 6, one point 7 of which is facing the arriving matrix bar. In entering the magazine, the matrix bar slides with one of its narrow sides along the hypotenuse of the right angle plate 6, and whilst engaging by means of its suspension hood 8 with the guide wire, is gradually raised until it is in horizontal position on the plate. The gradual rising is illustrated in Figure 1 group B. In order to prevent matrices from remaining suspended with their recesses on the edge of the lowest guideplate 6, the latter is provided with a flange 9 bent downwards. The sharp angle at the point 7 becomes gradually smaller in the different superposed guide plates 6, as shown in Figure 2, so that the hypotenuse retreat from the bottom upwards. The matrices suspend ed to the uppermost guide wire are therefore raised first by the point 7 of the lowest guide plate, but then again engage with'fthe hypotenuse of the next higher guide plate, being raised again, and so on, until finally they are brought into horizontal position by the uppermost guide plate. In this way, the wear due to the sliding of the matrices on the various hypotenuses, is distributed over the whole length of the matrices.

When in the magazine, the matrices are held at the hooked end by means of any desired stop, for instance by a turned over part 10 of the guide plate arranged above them. At the other end they engage with any desired brake device which is released from the key board 11 by striking a key. In the construction shown, the guide plates form grooves 12 in which the matrix bars are placed. At the end of the groove is arranged a stop 13 with which the foremost matrix engages. Under the latter is situated the end of a double lever 15 pivoted about 14. When a key is struck, this end is raised, and raises therefore the matrix with its end above the stop 13. As the whole magazine is inclined downwards, the matrix falls at once and turns about its point of suspension and becomes released from the stop 10. The arrow 16 indicates the path in which the matrix end SNlljlgs downwards. The matrix slides then in the usual. manner to the setting point 2.

As the matrices are arranged horizontally and edgewise next to each other, the magazine is of very small width, and a depth which corresponds to that of the longest matrix. The total dimensions oil. the ma chine thus become very small. This advantage is more particularly noticeable in machines with circular movement, as in this case it is possible to arrange the matrices within the space formed by the circular guides otherwise unutilized.

Figures 3 and i show the application of the invention to a machine with two sets of type in which the guide wires are arranged in a known manner at the setting point 2 in four parallel rows 17, and the matrix bars 18 of the outer rows are cranked inwards. The guide plates 19 form here isosceles triangles. The matrices of the set suspended to the outer wire series, are arranged within the circular guides, whilst the matrices of the set suspended to the inner wire series, are arranged outside the. circular guides in extensions of the matrices of the other set.

What I claim is:

1 In a type-line setting machine the combination of matrix bars and a magazine comprising guide wires for the matrix, bars arranged above each other and means for holding the matrices in a horizontal. or ap: proximately horizontal position therein.

2. In a type-line setting machine the combination of matrix bars, guide wires for the 'matrix bars arranged in the magazine above each other and holding the matrices in a horizontal or approximately horizontal position, a plate arranged in the magazine under each guide wire with an edge extending obliquely of the guide wires the matrices which enter the magazine sliding along the said plate and turning about their point of suspension.

3. In a type-line setting machine the combination of matrix bars, guide wires for the matrix bars arranged in the magazine above each other and holding the matrices in a horizontal or approximately horizontal position, a piate arranged in the magazine under each guide wire with an edge extending obliquely oi the guide wires and the angle of which formed by the oblique edges of the plates with. the guide wires, decreasing from the bottom upwards.

at. In a type-line setting machine the combination of matrix bars, guide wires guiding the matrix bars in a circle and a magazine formed in part by said guide wires, the parts oil? the guide wires in the magazine being arranged above each other and means for holding the matrices in a horizontal or approximately horizontal. position, the said matrix bars being arranged to lie in the space bounded by the circular guides.

5. In a type-line setting machine the combination of matrix bars, guide wires for the matrix bars arranged in the magazine above each other and holding the matrices in a horizontal or approximately horizontal position, the said guide wires being arranged at the setting pointin four rows for two sets of matrices, the matrix bars oi one set being situated in the extension of the matrix bars of the other set.

6. In a type-line setting machine the com bination of matrix bars, guide wires for the matrix bars arranged in the magazine above each other and holding the matrices in a horizontal or approximately horizontal position, the said guide wires being arranged at the setting point in four rows for two sets of matrices, the guide wires of: the outer matrix set being arranged within the guide wires of the inner matrix set parallel to the same.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JULIUS DORNETH.

Witnesses:

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V. Soriwxirn. 

